148. German Air Force Female Auxiliaries: Flakwaffenhelferin, 1945, Service Uniform with Greatcoat.
150. German Air Force Female Auxiliaries: Betriebs-Gruppenf�hrerin und Heimleiterin, 1940, Duty Uniform.
Women were employed in the Luftwaffe in more capacities than in any other branch of German military or administrative work. Female auxiliaries in the German Air Force were engaged as telephone and telegraph operators, filing clerks, as radio operators, in the Air Warning Service, as plotting operators, intelligence service assistants, as searchlight crews, medical personnel and as flak-crew assistants. They wore uniforms of Luftwaffe blue-grey, some girls wore skirts but when this was not practical they wore slacks. Various systems existed at different times used to indicate auxiliary ranks, almost all were based on the use of flat silver braid worn either as bars or chevrons. These were arranged on the principle that the more chevrons or bars worn - the higher was the wearer's rank. Members of Flak units (Flakwaffenhelferinen) wore a distinctive shield-shaped cloth badge, displaying a Luftwaffe eagle and sword overlaying a sword, and worn on the right upper arm of their tunics and greatcoats (No. 148). The yellow Service Lanyard (No. 150) was worn by Officers and NCOs when acting as Duty Officer or NCO for the day (see also No. 134).

149. SS Female Auxiliary: SS-Assistent, 1944, Walking-out Uniform.
Women employed as office personnel in SS establishments should not be confused with those SS females who were responsible for the running of concentration camps for women prisoners. Although both categories of SS Women wore uniforms the example shown here in No. 149 is the type of SS Auxiliary in a strictly clerical capacity.

151. Armed-SS: SS-Brigadef�hrer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS, 1940, Greatcoat.
152. Armed-SS: SS Untersturmf�hrer. 1943, Walking-out Uniform.
153. Armed-SS: SS Sturmmann, Musician, 1944, Service Uniform.
Units of the SS-Special Purpose Troops that existed before the Polish campaign of 1939 were enlarged during the next eighteen months and new units brought into being. By April 1941 the original name of SS-Verf�gungstruppe was officially changed to that of Waffen-SS or Armed-SS. The former earth grey clothing had been gradually replaced by uniforms of field-grey. Waffen-SS officers of the rank of SS-Oberf�hrer and above wore greatcoats that had silvrrgrey lapel facings (No. 151). The army pattern service tunic, with both the dark blue-green collar (No. 152) and the plain field grey version (No. 153) were used extensively by all ranks of the Waffen-SS. The cuff-title was an item of insignia that was widely used throughout the many units of the SS, both the General-SS and Armed-SS, the latter having a vast number of types and qualities of manufacture for the cuff-titles used by so many of their named units.

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